A Conceptual Model of Nickel Content in the Bodies of Seafood Mollusks and their Gastrointestinal Absorption

Abstract

There are many biomonitoring studies of nickel in the mollusks, but to understand how the nickel is accumulated in the human body and the health risk posed by the metal is not a straightforward formula. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to draw a conceptual model of nickel content in the bodies of invertebrate mollusks and their gastrointestinal absorption of nickel. This model is useful to understand how nickel accumulation in the tissues of the mollusks could affect the nickel oral ingestion pathways. This conceptual model can shed some light on the mechanisms of nickel that may cause various toxicological risks and target cancer slope formulation in the future.

Distribution of cadmium and lead levels in the intertidal clam Glauconome virens: A biomonitoring study

“…There is a chance that any Cd-rich (or Pb-rich) cell inclusions will be expelled if the cells carrying these lysosomal leftover bodies line a tract with external access, providing a chance to determine the final accumulation pattern. The non-essential nickel in molluscs is treated with the same conceptual framework [25].…”